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Maura Sincoff – English Journal, 2016
This article examines relationships in the writing process and offers some strategies to address student needs on both the cognitive and affective domains.
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Student Needs, Cognitive Processes
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Nicole Boudreau Smith – English Journal, 2017
Despite calls to action, writing pedagogy in the English classroom remains outdated, and caustic partisanship among theorists may be to blame. The author proposes a "principled approach" to the teaching of writing, combining the best elements of verified instructional methods to generate six components ensuring student growth.
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Writing Processes
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Chadwick, Jocelyn A. – English Journal, 2012
In his foundational work, "English Composition and Rhetoric," Alexander Bain set forth the framework for what students and teachers now routinely refer to as the five-paragraph essay. Teachers were so inculcated with Bain's paradigm for the "perfect" essay format, they in turn have inculcated their students, and they just say now, "Write an…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Process Approach (Writing)
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Gibbons, Scott – English Journal, 2010
The wiki is an excellent tool for student collaboration and teacher assessment. Students' comfort with online social networking makes the wiki a perfect forum for students to coauthor works and to respond to each other's writing. In this article, the author discusses how to use a wiki to promote discussion and aid students with writing. He tested…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Social Networks, Educational Practices, Technology Uses in Education
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Brannon, Lil; Courtney, Jennifer Pooler; Urbanski, Cynthia P.; Woodward, Shana V.; Reynolds, Jeanie Marklin; Iannone, Anthony E.; Haag, Karen D.; Mach, Karen; Manship, Lacy Arnold; Kendrick, Mary – English Journal, 2008
There is a seductive "commonsense" logic to two opinion pieces that have appeared over the last two years in the "Speaking My Mind" section of "English Journal": (1) Byung-In Seo's "Defending the Five-Paragraph Essay," which appeared in the November 2007 issue; and (2) Kerri Smith's "In Defense of the Five-Paragraph Essay," which appeared in March…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Logical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Essays
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Argys, Richard – English Journal, 2008
Teachers across the country consider the best methods to teach writing in the middle school and high school. They aspire for students to produce writing aimed at real audiences and purposes, writing that follows the author's thinking and leads readers to discoveries about the topic. Many teachers believe that a formula in writing could offer…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Exit Examinations, Process Approach (Writing)
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Blake, Robert W. – English Journal, 1990
Considers what poets themselves have to say about poetry. Discusses how they write poems, why they write poems, and what poetry is good for. (RS)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Poetry, Poets, Writing Attitudes
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Dean, Deborah – English Journal, 2005
An English writing teacher has helped students acquire control over their writing in varying contexts by focusing on specific strategies that they could apply to different strategies of the writing process. Strategies for inquiry, for drafting and for products can be used with any of the students' writing tasks, which helps them become strategic…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Murray, Donald M. – English Journal, 1991
Discusses the 10 elements of the author's personal writing curriculum: solitude, experience, faith, need, tension, pattern, voice, ease, productivity, and readers. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Poetry, Secondary Education, Writing Instruction
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Carroll, Joyce Armstrong – English Journal, 1991
Describes an informal experiment designed to explore the relationship between drawing and writing, and the meaning held in the drawings. Finds that drawing should not be relegated only to small children, but should be used to help older students explore their thoughts and feelings as well. (PRA)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Freehand Drawing, Visual Aids, Writing Processes
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Akers, William T. – English Journal, 2002
Describes how the author asks students to turn off their monitors (literally and figuratively) and key into their "processors." Describes a tactile writing exercise to emphasize the sensation, the feel, that "writing with flow" generates. Notes that this experience of flow is vital to his vocation as a writer and as a writing instructor. (SG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Instructional Innovation, Secondary Education
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Wiley, Mark – English Journal, 2000
Argues that too many teachers are looking for quick fixes for students' writing problems. Shows how formulaic writing of the kind J. Schaffer advocates forces premature closure on complicated interpretive issues and stifles ongoing exploration. Argues that writing teachers must help students develop a repertoire of strategies for identifying and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Teachers, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
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Smagorinski, Peter – English Journal, 1991
Asserts that role-playing peer-response groups provide effective feedback and help students develop a sense of the characteristics of a particular audience. Illustrates with a sample lesson (a college application essay) by outlining five steps of the process. Offers other uses of the role-playing peer-response groups method. (PRA)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Group Discussion, Peer Evaluation
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Owen, Frieda – English Journal, 1991
Shares some of the things learned during interviews and observations of three English teachers focusing on the role of planning in the teaching process. (MG)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Lesson Plans, Secondary Education, Student Centered Curriculum